Day Three - May 31, 2017
Munich, Germany to Krakow, Poland
Daily Didactic
The day began early. Our rolling bedroom pulled into Wien Hauptbahnhof at 6:30am. While it was the best night's sleep we've had since we left, it was still on a train. Our berths kept the rhythm of the rails and bumped, lurched, and rocked as much as the train did. We hit the DB ticket counter when we got to Vienna to buy passage onto our actual first destination, Krakow. The train makes a connection in Katowice, which turns out to be "one of the capitals" of Poland. Not sure how that works, but it seems complicated. We had about an hour wait and killed time looking for some breakfast and wifi. Breakfast came in the form of an Egg McMuffin. We are not proud. Wifi also came Mcdonalds style, which was surprisingly good and convenient. At 8:15 we rolled out of Vienna in our compartment for six. Trains in Europe can be fascinating. These little rooms can be really great. They are basically sleeper rooms folded down into seats for the day. That said, if you think folks try to shove a lot of stuff into airplane overheads in America, you should see how optimistic they are on European trains. Fortunately we got into our window seats first, stowed our backpacks above us, and were just able to sit back and watch the show. Feelings were hurt and angry Austrian or Polish was spoken by a few of our roommates. Through it all we listened to podcasts, Theresa painted, and Brian worked on re-writing the backend of this website so it could create pages again. The primarily Czech countryside was pretty and the train was comfortable. Six hours later we rolled into Katowice and had two hours to kill until our connecting train would take us the last hour and an a half to Krakow. Katowice was a great town to walk about, but at this point we were both exhausted enough to have trouble appreciating the opportunity. About two hours later ( around 6:00) we were greeted in our first apartment by our first AirBNB host Ania. The apartment was surprisingly large and ridiculously cheap. We made a quick outing to the grocery for some dinner, ate, and then collapsed. In Poland. Crazy.
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